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A Scam Email with the Subject
"PayPal Department."
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:18 -0800 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
"PayPal Security Service"<service@paypal.com>,
although it may have been spoofed.

Scam Tag Cloud

belloboxpaypalpaypal.comlogincreditactivitycontactwinsafeaccountresponsecustomerserviceaccessprocesscustomsecurereportmailuser will mailboxsecuritydearhttps://www.paypal.com/cg...

NO CHART DATA - EMAIL HAS NOT YET BEEN ANALYSED

Scam Email Headers

This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.

return-path:

<service@paypal.com>

envelope-to:

scamdex_spamfree_contact_1@HUN1P0T

delivery-date:

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:18 -0800

reply-to:

<service@paypal.com>

from:

"PayPal Security Service"<service@paypal.com>

subject:

PayPal Department.

date:

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:00:47 -0900

mime-version:

1.0

content-type:

text/html;charset="Windows-1251"

content-transfer-encoding:

quoted-printable

message-id:

<SCX4ID@1204769291.M99821P20228V>

Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'

Community Action - SPAM/non-Scam Report

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PayPal is committed to maintaining a safe environment for our community of customers. To protect the security of your account, PayPal employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the PayPal system for unusual activity.

We are contacting you to remind that on 23 January 2008 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

To secure your account and quickly restore full access, we may require some additional information from you for the following reason:

We have been notified that a card associated with your account has been reported as lost or stolen, or that there were additional problems with your card.

This process is our mandatory, and if not completed within the nearest time your account or credit card may be subject for temporary suspension.